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They buy 2 loaves, 2 TVs - Ramaphosa says MPs barely getting by on salaries Updated
Nokukhanya N Mntambo
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The assertion by Ramaphosa comes despite continued backlash on the cost of salaries and benefits to the public purse.
The 2020 government gazette on the remuneration for public office bearers revealed the speaker of the National Assembly and the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) earned close to R3 million for the year.
The chief whips for the majority party and the leader of the opposition party earned more than half of that, while other MPs earned a little over R1 million.
A democratic expropriation law is one step closer as countrywide public hearings are concluded and legislators begin deliberations. But the constitutional amendment to make explicit the implicit possibility of expropriation without compensation is coming up against a deadline as the EFF pushes.